Today's News

Councilman David Romero recently suffered a health problem, his family said in a statement this week.

The family didn’t reveal the nature of the situation, but they said he was in the care of medical experts.

“The family asks for you to continue to keep him in your thoughts and prayers in this time of recovery and rehabilitation,” the statement said. “We are optimistic for a speedy recovery, and we are confident that the city of Las Vegas will make reasonable accommodations as needed.”

What drives one to coach? What motivates one to put up with the low pay, long hours, sleepless nights and so on and so on that they want to stay and do something that once was considered an art form of respect?

The Las Vegas City Council recently gave a new two-year contract to the community’s ambulance provider, Superior Ambulance.

But the city, by its own admission, hasn’t closely monitored the company’s performance for such details as response times. One of the reasons, Fire Chief Phil Mares said, was that Superior apparently had problems getting data from the city’s police dispatchers.

District 2-3A, in which Robertson and West Las Vegas compete, has undergone a major change in the offseason as part of a statewide realignment by the New Mexico Activities Association, the governing body overseeing high school athletics and other extracurricular activities in the state.

Highlands University officials say they are facing the same budgetary struggles as other state agencies. But they say they’ve been working on ways to deal with the situation.

Highlands University President Jim Fries said the school is expecting a 3.2 percent cut, which is the level that state officials have been warning.

Fries said the reduction of state money would begin in September. He read a memo from state officials that said if future budgetary forecasts improve, budgets could be adjusted upward. The memo also said budgets could be reduced.

The executive director of Las Vegas’ main economic development group is planning to step down, but he’s not sure when that’ll happen.

Roberto Rios, director of the Las Vegas-San Miguel Economic Development Corporation, confirmed to the City Council recently that because of personal issues, he would have to leave his position. He has held the job for 13 months.

He said that given the bad state of the economy, he said it may take some time to find another job, so he may still be at EDC for a while.